Question For Those Who Took The LSAT Twice? Forum

[Madman]

Just wondering, did you all find that you retained a lot of what you studied from the first time around or was it difficult to get back on the LSAT horse so to speak?

I am just worried I am going to forget a lot when I start studying again.

Cheers

[lakerfanimal]

The stuff came back to me within a week or so; but that sort of worked against me a little bit because I had some bad habits that I had to replace.

[Mr. Pablo]

Its like riding a bicycle. You may be a little shaky at first, but when you get back into it you may find that you are actually better than before.

[autarkh]

Same experience. Even a year later, I found that I hadn't lost much, and within a week or so I felt that I had actually gotten better.

[twintipping_bumps]

I took two and a half months off and then studied for a few weeks. My score then went up 7 points. I never did intense prep but did do some practice tests and the Power Score Bibles.

[TheLuckyOne]

No, you will not really forget anything, though, you will mostly likely be much slower especially on LGs.

Don't worry, take the time off, it will only benefit you.

[dk8]

i didn't study at all from december to june. my score went up 4 points. if i could do it over again i would start some light studying about three weeks before my retake. i was really rusty on games section since i hadn't done any in months.

[ilovelamp18]

I took two and a half months off and then studied for a few weeks. My score then went up 7 points. I never did intense prep but did do some practice tests and the Power Score Bibles.

I had this exact same experience.

[redvelvetccake]

I took off about a month and half and then did nothing but practice tests for the month before and focused on the things I was getting wrong. Jumped 13 pts.

[cavebat2000]

I waited 2 years and retook. I had forgotten pretty much everything. But that was a good thing. That meant i also forgot the dumb habits I had picked up.

[skip james]

I personally found that my sense of timing (i.e. speed) disappeared, but that my precision (i.e. accuracy) more or less stayed the same.

[chutzpah]

I took the September test, did ok, and then decided to retake in February just before the registration deadline. So I only had like 6 weeks to study and two of those were lost because of a personal emergency. Everything came back easily and I actually thought studying was more fun the second time around. I took maybe 6 PTs and went up 9 points. Go figure.